Bearsden was at one time referred to as Up to date Kilpatrick; indeed, a town's official Gaelic name is still Cille Phàdraig Ùr.

A town is primarily accessible per A739, A809 & A81 roads, also when by rail to Bearsden, Westerton or even Hillfoot stations. Key landmarks include Bearsden Cross, Brookwood Library, a Burgh Hall & Bearsden Ski Club.

Population

Bearsden is primarily an upper middle-class commuter suburb. A majority of its population live in detached houses, travelling into Glasgow each day to act or even learn. Based on data from a 2001 census of Scotland, the locality is 10,417 house, by using the sum people of 27,967. This is an increase of Cypher.6% (or even 161 people) since 1991, whenever a population stood at 27,806. (There are an norm of Two.64 humans by the menage.) One, 8,306 come across 55 years old, 17,700 come inside social class ABC1, and 6,052 come within social class C2DE. 73% of residents surveyed visit function by car, 16% by train or bus, 5% by other methods, & 6% act principally home. Bearsden is typically thought of when existence the like affluent region. Sure, several of Glasgow's virtually all expensive houses come in the Old Bearsden Great Conservation Area. Bearsden's postcode (G61) was ranked 7th richest in the UK by [http://www.eurodirect.co.uk/Pages/PR_Millionaire_Report_2005.html a recent survey], using an guessed 176 millionaries dwelling there.

Notable residents of Bearsden include & own involved Rangers F.C. manager Alex McLeish, Pop Idol contestant Darius Danesh, Wet Wet Wet drummer Tommy Cunningham, and snooker player Alan McManus.

History

Roman

the foremost known award on the places of present-contemporary Bearsden was a Deuce.Cinque acre (10,000 k²) Roman fort that existed for 20 years in the 2nd century AD. This fort was repose on the course of the Antonine Wall and The Military Way, the road that ran parallel south of the wall. Indeed, a Castlehill vicinity of Bearsden is then-supposed due to its proximity to the fort. Little of the fort remains to exist as seen now. Even so, more or less the fort was a Roman bath-house, built in just about 142–143 AD. A bath-home's remains were found by builders digging foundations for the housing development, within 1973 and today lie easily-preserved 150 metres from either a town centre.

17th century to 19th century

Modern Bearsden began around an farming locality as a little hamlet known as Just released Kirk, adjacent to Canniesburn Toll, a water supply mill at Garscube, & the Up to date Kilpatrick Church, which was 1st built inside 1649. A present-contemporary church was built inside 1808. A cash settlement grew in the midst of the nineteenth century when Glaswegian businessmen built houses at a short few feet away from either the city. Following, a town centre is primarily Victorian and also lies in the Old Bearsden Conservation Metropolitan area. Within 1863, the Glasgow & Milngavie Junction Railway opened, by owning the station at Just released Kirk known as Bearsden. This presently became a title of the community.

20th century

Bearsden continued to expand in the twentieth century as residents built large independently-designed villas, estates of bungalows, and more types of houses. Virtually all buildings come of stone. Pack web sites come nowadays left untenanted. Around 1958, Bearsden became a Burgh, though this was so succeeded by Bearsden & Milngavie District Council in 1975, and East Dunbartonshire Council in 1996.